DeWine names facial recognition panel - minus civil rights groups

6:38 PM,
Aug. 29, 2013

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine

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Attorney General Mike DeWine's panel to review security protocols for Ohio's facial recognition system will start meeting Sept. 10 - and two civil-rights groups are not on it.

The nine-member group includes former and current judges, a prosecutor, a sheriff, a police chief and a coroner, but DeWine did not grant the requests of the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio and the Council on American Islamic-Relations' Ohio chapter to join the commission.

"This is a respected group of criminal justice professionals," DeWine said Thursday in a statement. "They are real pros." ...